The Food Wife/References

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References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 23 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the CBS show The Good Wife.
• The E4 video game convention is a parody of the E3 Expo. Video games seen include:
  • Grand Theft Scratchy: Itchy City Stories, a continuation of the Grand Theft Scratchy series and parody of Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories.
  • Blocko, including Cosmic Wars and Angelica Button games, parodying the Lego game series.
  • Bongo Games, a reference to Bongo Comics, creator of Simpsons Comics.
  • The GS3 Gamestation, a parody of the PlayStation 3.
  • ProtoVision, a parody of Activision.
  • World of Krustcraft, a parody of the World of Warcraft games.
  • Ybox, a parody of the Xbox.
  • Jal 3, a parody of Halo 3.
  • Marching Band, a parody of the Rock Band series.
  • Q-bert: Origins, a parody of Q-bert and Rayman Origins.
  • Electronic Crafts, a parody of Electronic Arts.
  • Shaun White: Time Snowboarder, a parody of Shaun White Snowboarding.
  • Dig Dug Revelations is a parody of the Resident Evil: Revelations and Dig Dug.
  • Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Online is a video game adaptation of the film The Tree of Life.
  • Driver's License 2: License to Drive is a parody of the Driver series.
  • Assassin's Creed: Summer of Love is a reference to the Assassin's Creed series.
  • Human Centipede is a parody of the game Centipede and the film The Human Centipede.
  • Guts of War II: Entrails of Intestinox is a parody of God of War II.
  • Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game is a reference to The Simpsons Game level of the same name.
  • Medal of Duty is a reference to the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series.
  • A character who looks like Sonic is seen.
  • The Funtendo Zii Zu is parody of the Nintendo Wii U.
  • Furious Fliers is a parody of Angry Birds.
• Also appearing are:
  • Mapple
  • Cosmic Wars
  • Chalmskinn Interactive, a subdivision of Chalmskinn Productions.
  • Earthland Realms 2: The Outing of the Elves, sequel to Earthland Realms.
• Marge states that she was going to take Bart and Lisa to the X Games.
• Marges Nightmare:
  • The Swedish Chef from The Muppets appears.
  • Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay and Mario Batali appear.
  • The above all chant "food dad fun dad" with Bart and Lisa Simpson.
  • Gordon Ramsay wakes up and excliams "what in hell was that"
  • Marge Simpson wakes up, breathing heaving
  • She sees Homer chanting food me, fun me
• The scene where the meth lab owner is reminded of his apple pie as a child is a reference to Ratatouille.
• The song "Bloggin' a Food Blog" pays homage to "Empire State of Mind" by Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
• On The Android's Luncheon's home page, Comic Book Guy resembles Jabba the Hutt and the monster resembles the Rancor from Star Wars. The roasted monster on the plate is a Gamorrean.
• Iron Cook is a reference to the show of the same name in the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef".

Trivia

• There is no opening sequence in this episode. The Simpsons logo shows then it goes straight into the episode.
• The date on The New York News is Saturday, June 25, 2011.

Continuity

• Funtendo makes another appearance, this time with a new console. ("Million Dollar Maybe")
• Wolfgang Puck and Tom Colicchio both appear again. ("The Bart Wants What It Wants" and "The Falcon and the D'ohman")

Goofs

• When Homer says "Wow" when they enter E4, his mouth doesn't open.
• Marge locks Bart and Lisa's car doors, but a couple of scenes later when the car stops, their doors are unlocked.
• In one scene in the Simpson House, the colour of Grampa's stubble is yellow, not brown.